I was wondering what you all thought. Is it finished or do you think I might need to add something to it?

It's a self portrait by the way.

you have nice big red lips.

I'll actually admit that Blue Milk painted this for me.

I'm jealous of his talent.

oh, so he doesn't just suck at life.

NICE PAINTING OF YOUR AVATAR. LOSER.

This reminded me of a scene from 'Not Another Teen Movie' where the girl spent all that time painting a self portrait, only to reveal it being a stick figure painting at the end.

He's very talented with other things, though. A great writer, might I say.

I just thought this was a really funny painting. I laugh everytime I look at it, and maybe other people would too. It's the level I was at when I was in pre school. It's so cute.

I remember that! Oh man.

you make me laugh

I was considered something of a master pudding painter by age 4. Some of my most prestigous works included: "Family in front of the Sun", "Brown Self-Portrait", and "ball". I was also famous for including belly buttons on all my works regardless if my muse was nude or wearing cloths.

at least he got your crazy eyes right.

That's really mean, Dalen.

it symbolizes a vagina, right?

oh calm down there woman. you know i be kiddin'!

I always knew you were a hillbilly deep down.

it is missing some 'V' birds, grass and a sun with a smiley face on it

i feel like the artist hadn't fully realized a vision for the piece, it seems rather juvenile. still, his disregard for detail in the whole bottom half of the subject body suggests a downward motion of the work's whole: it is really a rather melancholy depiction despite the subject's smile. a work in the works

So true! Do you know they actually did an educational study to figure out what it meant when a child put the entire sun in the picture or just that 1/4 sun in the corner? Oh, the seventies were a simpler time.

Anyone want to see the poop log he painted on the back of that piece?

so you are just going to leave us hanging? what did the study find out?
I need to know if my kid is going to kill me or not.

not really.

I mostly remember a case where a kid was using black all the time and they sent him to psychologist because they thought he was depressed and it turned out that he was the smallest kid and by the time he got to the crayon box, only black was left.

Here's a little research on color:

CHILDREN'S PICTURE
Children have been made guinea-pigs in attempts to discover if, and to what extent, human response to color is inborn or culturally conditioned. For their book Painting and Personality, Rose H.Alschuler and La.. Berta Weiss Hattwick had the opportunity to study young children and their painting over a long period of time and with a knowledge of their back grounds.

They concluded that a delight in color showed emotional tendencies, and the frequent use of blue or black implied self-control and repression of emotion.

As might be expected, red had the highest effective value and revealed uninhibited expression.

Yellow seemed to go with infantile traits and dependence on grown-ups.

Green showed balance, fewer emotional impulses, a simple and an uncomplicated nature.

Particularly, a commonalty of their childrens' research can be seen in purple. This color would imply unhappiness that might be associated with sickness or death.

I know. Yawwwn.

Hey, somebody report Cemeterypolka for skipping school!

So is that a black eye that he gave you?

snow day!

I was just about to type this very same thing.